TCM Schedule for Wednesday, January 5: Drawn by Hirschfeld

TCM's daytime theme is Theatre Life.

As for evening, the spotlight is on those captured in caricature by the legendary Al Hirschfeld.

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

12:00 am
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
1h 33m | Comedy | TV-PG
Fearful that the Russians are flouridating America's drinking water, General Jack D. Ripper launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Cast
Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden

1:45 am
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
2h 2m | Drama | TV-PG
A fading Southern belle tries to build a new life with her sister in New Orleans.
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter

4:00 am
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-G
A wimpish bookkeeper with a passion for sea life slips off a pier and comes back as a fish.
Director
Arthur Lubin
Cast
Don Knotts, Carole Cook, Jack Weston

6:00 am
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
A Broadway columnist tries to use an innocent dancer to frame a producer.
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Cast
Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor

8:00 am
The Dogway Melody (1930)
16m | Musical | TV-G
In this short Dogville spoof of "The Broadway Melody" (1929), a Broadway producer puts on a show and makes a play for the leading lady.
Director
Jules White
Cast
Zion Myers, Jules White, Zion Myers

8:30 am
42nd Street (1933)
1h 25m | Musical | TV-G
When revered Broadway director Julian Marsh falls on hard times with both his health and his finances, he sets about mounting a new production.
Director
Lloyd Bacon
Cast
Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler

10:15 am
April in Paris (1952)
1h 41m | Comedy | TV-G
A bureaucrat's mistake sends a chorus girl to Paris representing American theatre in place of a star actress.
Director
David Butler
Cast
Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin



12:00 pm
The Great Garrick (1937)
1h 29m | Comedy | TV-G
French actors set out to deflate the ego of legendary stage star David Garrick.
Director
James Whale
Cast
Brian Aherne, Olivia De Havilland, Edward Everett Horton

1:45 pm
Stage Door (1937)
1h 23m | Drama | TV-G
Women at a theatrical boarding house try to make their big break happen.
Director
Gregory LaCava
Cast
Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou

3:30 pm
The Band Wagon (1953)
1h 52m | Musical | TV-G
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Cast
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant

5:30 pm
The Red Shoes (1948)
2h 14m | Romance | TV-G
Tale of a famous ballerina who must choose between art and love.
Director
Michael Powell
Cast
Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer



WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: DRAWN BY HIRSCHFELD

8:00 pm
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996)
1h 27m | Documentary
A documentary on the life of Al Hirschfeld, the most famous, recognizable caricaturist of the 20th century.
Director
Susan W. Dryfoos
Cast
Al Hirschfeld, Carol Channing, Colleen Dewhurst



9:45 pm
A Night at the Opera (1935)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-G
The Marx Brothers are pitted against high culture as they try to help two young opera singers.
Director
Sam Wood
Cast
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx

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11:30 pm
Sons of the Desert (1933)
1h 8m | Comedy | TV-G
Two friends hatch a harebrained scheme to attend a lodge convention over their wives' objections.
Director
William A. Seiter
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase



12:45 am
The Great Dictator (1940)
2h 9m | Comedy | TV-PG
A Jewish barber takes the place of a war-hungry dictator.
Director
Charles Chaplin
Cast
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie



3:00 am
Hobson's Choice (1954)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-G
A widower father fights to control the lives of his three strong-willed daughters.
Director
David Lean
Cast
Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie



5:00 am
Guns of the Pecos (1937)
56m | Western | TV-PG
Texas Rangers take on cattle rustlers.
Director
Noel Smith
Cast
Dick Foran, Anne Nagel, Gordon Hart